PROTEST AT FUNERAL OF U.S. SERVICEMAN
A protester with the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KS, chants as the funeral procession for U.S. Army Pvt. Peter Navarro pulls up to the St. Clare of Assisi Catholic Church in Ellisville, Mo on December 23, 2005. The group led by the Pastor Fred Phelps. protests at the funerals of U.S. servicemen and women claiming that God is punishing those that fight in the Iraq war. Navarro was killed by a roadside bomb on December 13 in Iraq. (UPI Photo/Bill Greenblatt)
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SAN BRUNO, Calif., Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A couple from a notorious Kansas church demonstrating against gays in San Bruno, Calif., were far outnumbered by counter-protesters.
WESTON, Mo., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A small Missouri town turned out to keep Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church from protesting a soldier's funeral.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Supreme Court justices showed rare open disapproval Wednesday of an anti-gay pastor who aggressively pickets the funerals of U.S. service members.
Next fall, the U. S. Supreme Court will hear the case of Snyder vs. Phelps, in which it's possible the speech-related practices of an obnoxious group will be curbed -- but at the price of some new First Amendment fetters.
SAN MATEO, Calif., March 22 (UPI) -- High school students in San Mateo, Calif., say they are prepared to oppose a church's protest of their school's production of "The Laramie Project."
LONDON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Two U.S. anti-gay preachers have been banned from entering England, officials said.
OTTAWA, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A U.S. Christian sect planning to protest the Canadian funeral of a man beheaded on a Greyhound bus will be turned back at the border, officials said.
WONDER LAKE, Ill., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A Baptist group led by the Rev. Fred Phelps will protest the funerals of two victims of the Illinois campus shootings saying it was God's revenge against gays.
TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 14 (UPI) -- A national U.S. motorcycle group has begun sending its members to military funerals being picketed by a publicity-hungry evangelical anti-gay group.
WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush signed a bill Monday intended to force members of a Kansas church to stop targeting military funerals with anti-gay demonstrations.
